right-branching
1Right-branching sentence — In English grammar, a right branching sentence is a sentence in which the main subject of the sentence is described first, and is followed by a sequence of modifiers that provide additional information about the subject. For example, the… …
2right-branching — /ruyt bran ching, brahn /, adj. Ling. (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the… …
3right-branching — /ˈraɪt bræntʃɪŋ/ (say ruyt branching) adjective (of a grammatical construction) having most of its constituents on the right of its node on a tree diagram (def. 3) …
4right-branching — /ruyt bran ching, brahn /, adj. Ling. (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the… …
5Branching (linguistics) — In linguistics, branching is the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences (such as subordinate propositions, prepositional phrases, etc.). Such ordering and nesting of phrases …
6left-branching — /left bran ching, brahn /, adj. Ling. (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother s friend s house; having most of the constituents on the left in a… …
7left-branching — /left bran ching, brahn /, adj. Ling. (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother s friend s house; having most of the constituents on the left in a… …
8Romance languages — Romance Geographic distribution: Originally Southern Europe and parts of Africa; now also Latin America, Canada, parts of Lebanon and much of Western Africa Linguistic classification: Indo European Italic …
9Syllable — For the computer operating system, see Syllable (operating system). A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a… …
10Japanese grammar — The Japanese language has a highly regular agglutinative verb morphology, with both productive and fixed elements. Typologically, its most prominent feature is topic creation: Japanese has prominent topics (although it is possible for topics and… …
